“It’s hard to understand why Strategy Analytics was focusing attention on its dubious claim that Samsung’s handset profits had supposedly come within $600 million of Apple’s iPhone profits, while ignoring the corollary conclusion: Apple’s iPad and Mac sales were destroying Samsung’s entire Galaxy Tab, Chromebook and Windows PC division by a factor of ten, or a difference of $4,160 million,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“While Apple has convinced vast audiences to buy its other non-iPhone products, particularly iPads, Samsung hasn’t,” Dilger reports. “Samsung still makes less money than Apple on sales of twice as many handsets, but it makes just a tiny fraction of Apple’s tablet profits despite shipping about half as many. ”
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